Highland Reel Scottish Dance competition during ther 2019 Oldmeldrum Sports & Highland Games 

I used to do it it is actually easy just need good stamina

As a former irish dancing who's currently learning it, it's great. There's a lot of similarities which is great but can be a bit confusing. I personally think it requires more stamina than soft shoe dancing but it's really fun

Ikr!!! I’m an Irish dancer but I’m Scottish! I think the arm thing will be okay if you do ceili dancing a lot, and we already have the shoes!!!

I learned the reason the Irish dancing has arms down and stiff close to body is during the British invasion centuries ago , did not allow immersion of Irish culture hence Irish dancing was banned yet the Irish continued to dance with arm by side so British soldiers from distance only saw jumping people up and down.

I thought there was a historical military connection - dancing used for athletic training. Regarding old time Scottish step dancing (Sean nòs in Ireland), it’s competitions that have formalised modern styles. I blame judges for trying to removing free style, but it lives on!

Aye, but it makes a strong lass!

As a former premier highland dancer, yes! It’s very hard, we need a lot of strength, muscle!

@mayanlogos92....this dance was around before irish dance which was adopted from scotland by the irish in the late 1800s.

When your instructor screams "and shed and shed and toe and heel and toe and heel" and you have a panic attack...

@@bluehydrangea5506 so true 😂

@@bluehydrangea5506 and then they scream "AGAIN" 😂

Especially not holding your arms up in the air whilst doing it

@see ya I know someone as an 8 year old who got a black belt in Taekwondo. They had to break through pieces of water-soaked wood. The way they practiced for that was by punching walls! 💗🌵

Looks a tad rigid

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You're lucky, and will be as great as your sis!

Thank you so much ♥️♥️♥️❤️❤️❤️

I do highland dancing too! I hope to see you one day at cowal! ❤️

Same

dierdre doyle...it,s a mix of nothing. it,s highland dance which precedes irish dance by at least a couple o hundred years and probably ballet. you might want to look up the irish dance steps borrowed from ballet.

I find this dancing incredibly sexy....!!

When you get down to the details and the break his dance down it’s not very hard, but it took me about a month to get the weaving correct 😂

You don't see too many overweight dancers of any dance style.

SAME OML

My nana was also Scottish but sadly she died I miss her so much

Maybe that's why they didn't do it?!

I was wondering that, too. I learned it with the arm linking, but that was 20 years ago...lol.

@@liba SAME here. Haha

we still dance the version with linked arms! (though not in covid times hahaha) that would be the “reel of tulloch”, and this version in the video is the “highland reel” :) the version we do usually depends on the year’s assigned championship steps!

@@kathrynscarlett6048 thanks! I forgot there's more than one reel! Haha.

A buck running through the forrest, is what I heard.

@@daniellekail9911 thanks 🙏

A Reel dance is four dancers. She was probably in the next group of four dancers.

The song is called Cullen Bay

The first tune is a 2-parted strathspey called "Molly Connell", composed by James Wark. The second tune, which starts at 1:21, is a reel called "Mrs. MacLeod of Raasay".

@@ChrisZ70 thank you so much!

@@RustyTomato You're welcome. More commonly heard for this genre are "Devil in the Kitchen" or "Marquis of Huntley's Highland Fling". There is an article that may help you, which lists many more tunes. Look up *Bagpipe News Piping for Dancing Part 1* and see the article by Donald MacPhee. A quote from it: The Highland Fling is the most popular of all the Scottish highland dances. The type of tune that is played for the Highland Fling is the strathspey. The introduction is a four bar or 16 count intro and each step is equivalent to a part of music (eight bars or 32 beats). Dancers dance either a four step Highland Fling or six step Highland Fling. The tempo for the ’Fling is recommended at between 112-124bpm. As stated the tune type is the strathspey and the more popular or easily recognisable tunes for this dance for the dancer would be The Marquis of Huntly’s Highland Fling, Orange and Blue, and Devil in the Kitchen. Possible introductions for the Fling would be playing the last four bars of the first part or the second part and then playing the tune as written, keeping in mind as stated earlier eight bars or one part of music equals one step, so for a four step fling you would play a four bar intro and then four parts of a strathspey (two two-parted strathspeys) or for the six step Fling you would play a four bar intro and six parts of a strathspey.

@@ChrisZ70 super useful! I'll keep that in mind

He/she sure did!

sure

Highland dancing was invented in the 11 or 12th century, I'm pretty sure they would be dead.

@@theoceanskyesystem9463 Lies and deceit her friend amde it

@@balianimator, believe what you want, I'm just saying

Your friend owns and created something that has existed for 200 years and is practiced internationally? I don't think so.

Dance has nonational borders.

@moonshine3657.......this is scottish which predates irish dance (which was adopted from scottish stepdance in the late 1800s) by a few 100 years.

I'm going to find you

@gormlesshun AYYYY

@@SillyGoobera Yes

Какое отношение традиционные народные танцы имеют к олимпиаде? Ты бы хоть красный нос надевал, прежде чем такое писать.

Like you would know mair

@@SillyGoobera I do know with thanks. Danced at a High Level for many years. If you are going to insult me spell my name correctly.

@@mairiconnell6282 Erm what the flip bro

🤣🤣ok hen

@@SillyGoobera I was a National Champion.

scots dont get mad at me im scottish too

clearly you have no idea how much strength and dedication this takes so shush

Maybe you've just been brainwashed into thinking everything from your own Culture is "goofy"

@@stickmen5881 Lol

Wow so mature 😐😑

In the middle east they sh... goats.

creep

You should be on a watch list.

@@guyincognito9698 actually, I am.

_Reported_

@@nailahdawkins pathetic

Forced ? Who's forcing you 😂😂